Washington Views
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After almost 40 years; now FORMER AIPAC staffer! My views are MY views! Likes/Reposts are NOT Endorsements! Focus on History, US-Israel, Zionism, AIPAC & Antisemitism. See michaellewisonline.substack.com
ChatGPT's Assessment of My Views of AIPAC and J Street! open.substack.com/pub/michaell...? #AIPAC #JStreet
ChatGPT's Assessment of My Views of AIPAC and J Street!
I hitherto haven’t used AI in my writing- And in fact have made very-little use of it for my “research”- which is something I probably should rectify!
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December 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
ChatGPT's Assessment of My Views of AIPAC and J Street! open.substack.com/pub/michaell...? #AIPAC #JStreet
"In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth...and God said 'Let there be light.' And there was light..." #OnThisDay in 1968: The Apollo 8 crew, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, read opening sentences Book of Genesis as they circled the Moon
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Apollo 8 - Book Of Genesis Reading (December 24, 1968)
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December 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth...and God said 'Let there be light.' And there was light..." #OnThisDay in 1968: The Apollo 8 crew, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, read opening sentences Book of Genesis as they circled the Moon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=njpW...
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King Charles makes donation to support Jewish charity’s relief efforts in Ukraine
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King Charles makes donation to support Jewish charity’s relief efforts in Ukraine - The Jewish Chronicle
His Majesty has served as patron of World Jewish Relief since 2015
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December 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
King Charles makes donation to support Jewish charity’s relief efforts in Ukraine
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The Anti-Defamation League Reports again on some people in the Administration of New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdami...J Street Criticizes ADL for its Report (And I wish both that everyone could see things as I do - AND that I could avoid typos!) #ADL #JStreet #Mamdani
ADL Reports again on the people in the Zohran Mandani...J Street Criticizes ADL for its Report
ADL’s “Mamdani Administration Update” (Via Politico)’
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December 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"The Myth of AIPAC’s Power"- An article with a different perspective. Daniel Samet in National Review Magazine @nationalreview.bsky.social www.nationalreview.com/magazine/202... #AIPAC @aipac1.bsky.social
The Myth of AIPAC’s Power | National Review
Israel’s critics exaggerate the group’s influence.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
"The Myth of AIPAC’s Power"- An article with a different perspective. Daniel Samet in National Review Magazine @nationalreview.bsky.social www.nationalreview.com/magazine/202... #AIPAC @aipac1.bsky.social
Dec. 20 #OnThisDay Flashbacks...1924: #Hitler released from Prison. @nytimes.com "believed [Hitler] will retire to private life"...1981: PM Menachem Begin "Are we a vassal-state of yours? Are we a banana republic?…” 1976: Israeli PM Rabin resigns/elections open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
A few December 20 "ON THIS DAY" Flashbacks...1924: Hitler Released from Prison (NYT: "believed he will retire to private life"...1981: PM Menachem Begin Lambasts US "Are we a vassal-state of yours?
1924 - New York Times - HITLER TAMED BY PRISON.; Released on Parole, He Is Expected to Return to Austria.
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December 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Dec. 20 #OnThisDay Flashbacks...1924: #Hitler released from Prison. @nytimes.com "believed [Hitler] will retire to private life"...1981: PM Menachem Begin "Are we a vassal-state of yours? Are we a banana republic?…” 1976: Israeli PM Rabin resigns/elections open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
J Street's 2026 National Convention is in Washington DC, February 28-March 3rd - Speakers announced thus far... J Street - Other speakers announced @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social jstreet.org/convention/s...
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
J Street's 2026 National Convention is in Washington DC, February 28-March 3rd - Speakers announced thus far... J Street - Other speakers announced @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social jstreet.org/convention/s...
Washington Views: "Critics, Detractors and Other View” (including my own!) + "Key On This Day" Highlights for week ending December 19, 2025 - A personal perspective after almost 40 Years at AIPAC analyzing the "Critics and Detractors" of #Israel and #AIPAC open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
Washington Views: "Critics, Detractors and Other View” (including my own!) + "Key On This Day" Highlights -December 19, 2025
A personal perspective after almost 40 Years at AIPAC analyzing the "Critics and Detractors" of Israel and AIPAC
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December 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Washington Views: "Critics, Detractors and Other View” (including my own!) + "Key On This Day" Highlights for week ending December 19, 2025 - A personal perspective after almost 40 Years at AIPAC analyzing the "Critics and Detractors" of #Israel and #AIPAC open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
#OnThisDay in 1961: Stanley Kramer's film, "Judgement at Nuremberg," starring among others, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark, opened in the US...Film Trailer and New York Times film review www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ta... www.nytimes.com/1961/12/20/a... #JudgementAtNuremberg #WWII
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961) | Official Trailer | MGM
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December 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#OnThisDay in 1961: Stanley Kramer's film, "Judgement at Nuremberg," starring among others, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark, opened in the US...Film Trailer and New York Times film review www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ta... www.nytimes.com/1961/12/20/a... #JudgementAtNuremberg #WWII
#OnThisDay- December 17
1942: Joint statement from the Allied Nations (including US, UK, France, USSR) Condemning Nazi Extermination of Jews. www.nytimes.com/1942/12/18/a...
1862: General U.S. Grant infamous "General Order No 11" expelling Jews en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General...
1942: Joint statement from the Allied Nations (including US, UK, France, USSR) Condemning Nazi Extermination of Jews. www.nytimes.com/1942/12/18/a...
1862: General U.S. Grant infamous "General Order No 11" expelling Jews en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General...
December 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
#OnThisDay- December 17
1942: Joint statement from the Allied Nations (including US, UK, France, USSR) Condemning Nazi Extermination of Jews. www.nytimes.com/1942/12/18/a...
1862: General U.S. Grant infamous "General Order No 11" expelling Jews en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General...
1942: Joint statement from the Allied Nations (including US, UK, France, USSR) Condemning Nazi Extermination of Jews. www.nytimes.com/1942/12/18/a...
1862: General U.S. Grant infamous "General Order No 11" expelling Jews en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General...
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As antisemitism continues to rise worldwide, Jews were violently targeted in an antisemitic attack on the New York City subway.
Staying silent is no longer an option. Use your voice to stand with all Jews across the world.
Staying silent is no longer an option. Use your voice to stand with all Jews across the world.
December 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
As antisemitism continues to rise worldwide, Jews were violently targeted in an antisemitic attack on the New York City subway.
Staying silent is no longer an option. Use your voice to stand with all Jews across the world.
Staying silent is no longer an option. Use your voice to stand with all Jews across the world.
Marking Four Years Since AIPAC Entered the World of Campaign Contributions open.substack.com/pub/michaell... @aipac1.bsky.social #AIPAC #OnThisDay
December 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Marking Four Years Since AIPAC Entered the World of Campaign Contributions open.substack.com/pub/michaell... @aipac1.bsky.social #AIPAC #OnThisDay
"'Detractors and Conspiratorialists’ Respond to Bondi Beach": My @timesofisrael.com blog piece looking at just some of the responses in the first 24 hours by "haters" to the slaughter of Jews celebrating Hanukkah at Australia's Bondi Beach blogs.timesofisrael.com/detractors-a... #BondiBeach
December 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"'Detractors and Conspiratorialists’ Respond to Bondi Beach": My @timesofisrael.com blog piece looking at just some of the responses in the first 24 hours by "haters" to the slaughter of Jews celebrating Hanukkah at Australia's Bondi Beach blogs.timesofisrael.com/detractors-a... #BondiBeach
#OnThisDay in 1991: The #UN General Assembly revoked its infamous 1975 "Zionism is Racism" resolution "The General Assembly Decides to revoke the determination contained in its resolution 3379 (XXX) of 10 November 1975" was adopted 111-25 with 13 abstentions. #Zionism
December 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
#OnThisDay in 1991: The #UN General Assembly revoked its infamous 1975 "Zionism is Racism" resolution "The General Assembly Decides to revoke the determination contained in its resolution 3379 (XXX) of 10 November 1975" was adopted 111-25 with 13 abstentions. #Zionism
A few observations re SOME of the early responses to the slaughter at Bondi Beach.
December 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A few observations re SOME of the early responses to the slaughter at Bondi Beach.
#OnThisDay (Dec 13), 1949: #Israeli PM David #Ben-Gurion announces he is moving the Knesset and most Government offices to #Jerusalem "[F]or the State of Israel there has always been and always will be one capital only - Jerusalem the Eternal. Thus it was 3,000 years ago - and thus it will be..."
December 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#OnThisDay (Dec 13), 1949: #Israeli PM David #Ben-Gurion announces he is moving the Knesset and most Government offices to #Jerusalem "[F]or the State of Israel there has always been and always will be one capital only - Jerusalem the Eternal. Thus it was 3,000 years ago - and thus it will be..."
Washington Views Part I: Coming Week's "ON THIS DAY" Highlights (December 12-19) open.substack.com/pub/michaell... #OnThisDay #USIsrael #Israel #AmericanJews #Antisemitism
Washington Views Part I: Coming Week's "ON THIS DAY" Highlights (December 12-19)
1862: Grant's General Order 11..1942: Joint Allied Statement on Jewish Extermination..1961: Eichmann Sentenced Death..1981: Israel Annexes Golan/US Suspends MOU...1991: UN "Zionism is Racism" Revoked
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December 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Washington Views Part I: Coming Week's "ON THIS DAY" Highlights (December 12-19) open.substack.com/pub/michaell... #OnThisDay #USIsrael #Israel #AmericanJews #Antisemitism
The horror. The horror! The anti-Zionist, so-called Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) ”JVP Academic Council: Affirming our Commitment to BDS” and focusing on peter Beinart terrible error of speaking at Tel Aviv University…! www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/12/11/j...
JVP Academic Council: Affirming our Commitment to BDS - JVP
As the Palestinian-led BDS movement has made clear for decades now, it is not possible to communicate with Zionist Israelis at their complicit institutions without normalizing state violence and betra...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The horror. The horror! The anti-Zionist, so-called Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) ”JVP Academic Council: Affirming our Commitment to BDS” and focusing on peter Beinart terrible error of speaking at Tel Aviv University…! www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/12/11/j...
#OnThisDay (December 11)
1917: Two days after the Turkish surrender, British General Allenby entered the walled Old City of Jerusalem - VIDEO: (music added!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ZE...
1941: 4 days after "Pearl Harbor." Germany and Italy declare War on the US news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi...
1917: Two days after the Turkish surrender, British General Allenby entered the walled Old City of Jerusalem - VIDEO: (music added!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ZE...
1941: 4 days after "Pearl Harbor." Germany and Italy declare War on the US news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi...
allenby in jerusalem
YouTube video by Daniel Assaf
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December 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
#OnThisDay (December 11)
1917: Two days after the Turkish surrender, British General Allenby entered the walled Old City of Jerusalem - VIDEO: (music added!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ZE...
1941: 4 days after "Pearl Harbor." Germany and Italy declare War on the US news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi...
1917: Two days after the Turkish surrender, British General Allenby entered the walled Old City of Jerusalem - VIDEO: (music added!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ZE...
1941: 4 days after "Pearl Harbor." Germany and Italy declare War on the US news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi...
The latest Tucker Carlson Interview: United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Franceska Albanese x.com/TuckerCarlso... #TuckerCarlson #FranceskaAlbanese #Israel #Gaza
December 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The latest Tucker Carlson Interview: United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Franceska Albanese x.com/TuckerCarlso... #TuckerCarlson #FranceskaAlbanese #Israel #Gaza
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) "Congressional Scorecard" with Scorecard ranking on "Civil Rights & Immigration, Iran, Israel-Gaza and AIPAC (Aipac or DMFI Support, AIPAC Direct... Earmarked..." scorecard.niacaction.org #NIAC #AIPAC #DMFI #Iran
December 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) "Congressional Scorecard" with Scorecard ranking on "Civil Rights & Immigration, Iran, Israel-Gaza and AIPAC (Aipac or DMFI Support, AIPAC Direct... Earmarked..." scorecard.niacaction.org #NIAC #AIPAC #DMFI #Iran
It's Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony Day. Past winners include- 1994: Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat…1978: Anwar Sadat & Menachem Begin….1964: Martin Luther King…1950: Ralph Bunche (Complete list of #NobelPeacePrize winners: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists... #OnThisDay
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
It's Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony Day. Past winners include- 1994: Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat…1978: Anwar Sadat & Menachem Begin….1964: Martin Luther King…1950: Ralph Bunche (Complete list of #NobelPeacePrize winners: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists... #OnThisDay
Via @propublica.org: The latest (2023) 990s IRS Filing for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for year ending September 2024 projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o... #AIPAC @aipac1.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Via @propublica.org: The latest (2023) 990s IRS Filing for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for year ending September 2024 projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o... #AIPAC @aipac1.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1978: Former Israeli Prime Minister - and one of Israel's "Founding Fathers" - Golda Meir dies at age 80. Henry Kissinger eulogized: "If it had not been for Golda, you would not have overcome" in Yom Kippur War. www.nytimes.com/1978/12/09/a... #israel #golda #GoldaMeir
December 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
#OnThisDay in 1978: Former Israeli Prime Minister - and one of Israel's "Founding Fathers" - Golda Meir dies at age 80. Henry Kissinger eulogized: "If it had not been for Golda, you would not have overcome" in Yom Kippur War. www.nytimes.com/1978/12/09/a... #israel #golda #GoldaMeir
Last night's CBS "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl @60minutes.bsky.social ^ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Q: "....Why did you vote against the Antisemitism Awareness Act?..
A "I've already voted denouncing antisemitism many times before..
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Q: "....Why did you vote against the Antisemitism Awareness Act?..
A "I've already voted denouncing antisemitism many times before..
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December 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Last night's CBS "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl @60minutes.bsky.social ^ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Q: "....Why did you vote against the Antisemitism Awareness Act?..
A "I've already voted denouncing antisemitism many times before..
www.cbsnews.com/news/marjori...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSJx...
Q: "....Why did you vote against the Antisemitism Awareness Act?..
A "I've already voted denouncing antisemitism many times before..
www.cbsnews.com/news/marjori...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSJx...